Clicking the koi (or water) splashes back a new patch.
One click sets the oscillators, the filter, both envelopes, the FM graph and the effects.
You can still tweak the sounds to your liking, and you can save or load any custom patches you create.
The patches K01 creates are based off of hand-selected synth patches I've made over the years, so they start somewhere musical and studio-ready. No AI model generates them, and nothing leaves your computer.
An emphasis on musical, not sound effects.
K01's patches aim to be something you can use in a song, rather than SFX and alien noises. Even if it's a bit off the mark, you're rarely more than a click away from something worth using.
Every patch is rendered offline before you hear it. K01 checks the patch and refines it, up to six times. Designed to prevent overly harsh patches and large jumps in volume.
Full spec
- Formats
- macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon & Intel): VST3, Audio Unit & Standalone · Windows 10+ 64-bit: VST3 only
- Voices
- 12, or 24 stacked · mono with last-note priority · glide in poly and mono · equal-power pan spread per note
- Oscillators
- Band-limited sine→saw→PWM carrier morph with a square sub · free-running phases · per-note and per-operator drift
- FM
- 4 operators · 6 fixed algorithms · harmonic ratios only · Tomisawa-averaged feedback · index key-scaled above middle C · operators fade out near Nyquist
- Filter
- Per-voice 4-pole ladder, 24 dB/oct · lowpass & highpass · one soft tanh inside the resonance loop · 303-style feedback tap
- Quality
- 2× oversampling and first-order ADAA on the shaper, doing different jobs · 16–23 dB together
- Envelopes
- Two analog-curved ADSRs
- Movement
- Per-voice vibrato on independent slow clocks, ±4.5% rate spread · Juno-style PWM on its own detuned clock · No assignable LFO
- Effects
- Chorus · flanger · tempo-syncable modulated echo · SWIRL, an 8-stage phaser
- Arpeggiator
- 7 modes · 12 divisions · 1–4 octaves
- Expression
- Full MPE — pressure opens the filter, CC74 tilts brightness ±0.6 oct · velocity · mod wheel
- Interface
- 15 knobs reaching 24 parameters via label-click view flips (this is how you access things like filter env and other alt functions) · five-octave keyboard · host-resizable
- Automation
- Every control the knobs touch, your DAW can too · presets save and load
- License
- Offline License key. Activate once, no account, no subscription. No internet required
Is this AI?
No, K01 does not use AI to do anything. K01 creates patches by referencing hand-selected patches, performs some magic, measures it, and adjusts it until it sits right. All of that happens on your own machine.
License and activation
A key arrives by email. Paste it in once and click ACTIVATE. Offline activation.